Blind love of country right or wrong?
Perhaps that emotion depends on how wrong.
The nation whose leader challenges
international norms of sovereign right
threatening might to overcome neighbours' fear
of the benign intention to reverse history
in a return of servitude twists the moral
rectitude of a people hectored to accept an
irredentist proclivity challenging loyalty
when citizens fully realize that it is not their
choice to die for their country, but the nation's
leadership's decision that they must die in
defense of a totalitarian ideology, an honour
they are not graciously given the right to decline.
Nor is there comfort in the generosity of
their national Patriarch standing firm in the
allegiance of the Russian Orthodox Church toward
the ambition of their president's decision to
war, to destruction, to mass deaths to relieve
the fighters of any sins carrying out their duties
to the land, for through him God has spoken.
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